| STRATFIELD-SAYE, or Strathfieldsaye (St.Mary), a '''parish''', in the union of Basingstoke, partly in the hundred of Reading, county of Berks, but chiefly in the hundred of Holdshott, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 7¾ miles (N. E.by N.) from Basingstoke;, with Beechhill tything. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A. , [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51312#s9 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 238-244.''] Date accessed: 06 May 2014.</ref> | | STRATFIELD-SAYE, or Strathfieldsaye (St.Mary), a '''parish''', in the union of Basingstoke, partly in the hundred of Reading, county of Berks, but chiefly in the hundred of Holdshott, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 7¾ miles (N. E.by N.) from Basingstoke;, with Beechhill tything. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A. , [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51312#s9 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 238-244.''] Date accessed: 06 May 2014.</ref> |
| Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. | | Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. |